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I never knew I would eventually see what would Skylab look like with its two main solar arrays intact! But would it mean that its micrometeoroid shield would be still in place too?

I have saved some prelaunch state vectors of Clipper from HORIZONS depicting its Jupiter orbit phases from 2030 up to its planned Ganymede crash on September 2034 (before it was deleted and replaced with an incomplete postlaunch data that runs only until 2031). Will try to make scns for them later

I think someone already suggested this somewhere on this thread, which I agree as it could help in lowering performance issues it might encounter

Boeing's considering whether or not Starliner should be cancelled due to the losses it made to the company (now currently at $1.85 billion) https://spacenews.com/boeing-losses-on-starliner-increase-by-250-million/

Gravitics Aerospace plan to launch their own space station, called Starmax, by 2026 at the earliest.

Is that freakin Machete? Lmao

I don't think Vast Space is planning to add any EVA capability to Haven-1 as they're already planning for Haven-2 succeed it and the ISS at the same time

Looks like some of the modules have some slight redesign....given that Progress is still planned to fly towards this station, does it mean there's no plans for a new cargo spacecraft anymore?

I can't help but compare Haven-1 as a slightly more advanced version of Tiangong 1 and 2 I wonder how they could resupply it?

I don't think they indicate any airlock of some sort in the final design

SpaceX restores Crew Dragon's abandoned capability of landing propulsively in an emergency: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/dragon-propulsive-landing/

Haven-1 was redesigned:

Not yet, but based on what declassified info we have, the only main payload aboard STS-53 is the third SDS-2 satellite

Surprisingly, despite the very cloudy weather at the Cape... it launches successfully :hailprobe:

Yeah, there's a strong hurricane approaching Florida this week....might affect Hera's schedule if it gets a lot worse.... it has delayed Europa Clipper already Anyways, the launch livestream just started as of this writing:

Nice! I don't know if it's just me, or the HGA is too small. Also there's some goldfoil wrapped in its bottom

The name of the larger satellite is SDS2, not SBS2 (that was a name for a different, civilian commercial satellite)... These SDS2 satellites were launched three times from a Shuttle (STS-28, STS-38 and STS-53) and once from a Titan IV and Atlas II https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sds-2.htm

The satellite model from hutchison66's STS-28 add-on is the historically accurate model for an SDS2 satellite...we can still use it

I think gattis already made those missions as well in the previous pages....somewhere around pages 40-50 I think

STS-35 is already an add-on as well